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  2. Martin Cooper (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Martin Cooper (inventor) Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928) is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field. [2][3] On April 3, 1973, he placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from ...

  3. Arlene Harris (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.dynallc.com. www.wrethinking.com. Arlene Joy Harris (born June 6, 1948) is an entrepreneur, inventor, investor, and policy advocate in the telecommunications industry. She is the president and co-founder of Dyna LLC, an incubator for start-up and early-stage organizations historically in the wireless technology field. [ 1]

  4. List of Illinois Institute of Technology alumni - Wikipedia

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    Martin Cooper: 1950: Inventor of the mobile phone while working at Motorola. His first call on "the brick" was to his rival at Bell Labs, Joel S. Engel. He is a former CEO, co-founder, and current Chairman of ArrayComm. [24] [42] [43] Lina Nilsson: Co-founder of Tekla Labs and open source lab technology developer. MIT Technology Review 35 Under ...

  5. Jack Kilby - Wikipedia

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    Jack St. Clair Kilby (8 November 1923 - 20 June 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. [1]: 22 He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on 10 December 2000.

  6. Vincent Price - Wikipedia

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    Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor. He was known for his work in the horror film genre, mostly portraying villains. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. Price has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television.

  7. Ray Tomlinson - Wikipedia

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    Ray Tomlinson. Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was an American [1][2][3][4] computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; [5][6][7][8] It was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET.

  8. Vint Cerf - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Vinton Gray Cerf (/ sɜːrf /; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. [2][7][8][9][10] He has received honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, [2] the Turing Award, [11] the ...

  9. Mobile phone - Wikipedia

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    The first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City on 3 April 1973, using a handset weighing c. 2 kilograms (4.4 lbs). [2] In 1979, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) launched the world's first cellular network in Japan. [3] In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first commercially available handheld ...